| As a result, and as is often the case, iron supplements were hastily given—with no tests for iron levels beforehand, and no monitoring during treatment whatsoever. I have even seen women who took iron for years before coming to me, whose doctors had never ordered follow-up studies to test their iron levels. This is a very dangerous practice, especially in the elderly, who are already accumulating too much free iron.
In addition to neurodegenerative disorders and cancer, several other diseases put people at an especially high risk of iron injury. |
Paula Begoun
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 There is no substantiated research pertaining to creatine's benefits for hair, though there is anecdotal information that creatine supplements (meaning their consumption in the diet) causes hair loss!
© Advance Techniques Color-Protection Shampoo ($3.49 for 11 ounces) is a standard, but good, shampoo for all hair types that poses minimal risk of buildup. Avon claims this shampoo protects hair color and keeps it vibrant twice as long as regular shampoos—but this product is just regular, ordinary shampoo! |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Turns and other calcium supplements do not contain these vital components.
Of all forms of calcium, the most absorbable is calcium citrate. Also, all forms of calcium derived from previously living organisms—such as dolomite and oyster shells—should be avoided since many contain lead and/or mercury.430
One characteristic of osteoporosis is that bone-construction cells, the osteoblast, are normal, but bone-dissolving cells, called osteoclast, are overactive.431 The disorder is much more common in women than men and usually follows menopause. |
| When combined with a diet low in sugar, high in cruciferous vegetables, moderate in fruits and complex carbohydrates, and low in saturated fats, these supplements can significantly improve glucose control, prevent diabetic complications and improve your sense of well-being. Remember that to gain the most benefit from these recommendations, you must strictly adhere to a lifelong program of diabetes control, which includes a healthy diet, moderate exercise, proper supplementation, and toxin-avoidance—especially aspartame and MSG—in your diet. |
| Those taking the N-3 supplements demonstrated a significant reduction in irritability.
The authors of the study suggested using N-3 oils to reduce irritability in other psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. A recent review found that five out of six double-blind, placebo controlled studies found discovered a significant benefit of using DHA in schizophrenia.
One recent study suggested a link between overactivation of an enzyme that causes inflammation called 5-LOX (lipoxygenase) enzyme, and anxiety and depression. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 Do bear in mind that you should only take supplements that have earned scientific backing.
Why Should I Take Probiotics?
Unfortunately, there are many bad habits which can upset the delicate balance of flora in the intestines. A diet high in refined carbohydrates (e.g. white flour and sugar), processed and refined foods, and fried and high-fat foods (e.g. fast foods) all contribute to feeding the wrong kind of bacteria and would also support the proliferation of yeast and fungi. This type of diet is also associated with less frequent bowel motions and other chronic digestive conditions. |
Ralph Moss, PhD
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 Patients could also start eating regular foods four days earlier. Mnnesota scientists described glutamine as "a simple and useful measure to increase the comfort of many patients at high risk of developing mouth sores as a consequence of intensive cancer chemotherapy." (12)
Oral glutamine also decreased the severity and duration of mouth sores in patients who received their own bone marrow as a transplant (autologous BMT). They needed morphine for pain for only five days, compared to 10.3 days for the group that received a placebo. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The situation is so bad that "health" sections of grocery stores are often stocked more with supplements and special preparations of seemingly magic ingredients than they are with real food. Don't be tricked: the healthiest section of any store is the place where they sell whole fruits and vegetables—the produce section.
Perhaps worst of all, industry corrupts scientific evidence even when its product has been linked to serious health problems. Our kids are often the most coveted targets of their marketing. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 See the section on supplements in chapter 4.) At the very least, take a high-potency multivitamin and mineral, although this is only the first line of defense—you probably need a lot more. Just as an example, in a paper in Medical Hypotheses, Dr. L.H. Leung noted that for reasons not completely understood, he had had a lot of success with weight loss patients by simply adding pantothenic acid to their program. (Nutritionist Barbara Marquette, M.S., who teaches nutritional therapeutics in the University of Bridgeport's master's program in nutrition, has seen the identical effect. |
Mike Adams
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General dermatitis
Regardless of what kind of dermatitis you have, some natural remedies work to ease all types of skin inflammation. These include witch hazel, oak bark and walnut bark—all of which are astringent topical ingredients. To make a soothing compress, make a tea using one teaspoon of powdered bark per cup of boiled water. |
| To do that, you should either take vitamin D supplements or get reasonable amounts of sunlight on a regular basis without using sunscreen. You must get healthy levels of sunlight— or consume vitamin D from fish oils—to have healthy bones.
Physical exercise is another important factor. If you don't use your bones, they won't get the signal that they should grow. Bones build density in response to stress. When you exercise, you put stress on the bones—causing them to undergo an adaptive response that builds bone mineral density. Walking is a great exercise for boosting bone mineral density. |
| Taking these supplements on a regular basis will allow you to be in the sunlight for a longer period of time without burning. This is a very common experience, and something you can easily experience yourself. If you choose to experiment with this, do it with caution and test your exposure limits intelligently. Natural sunlight is not only good for you, it is also one of many cures for cancers. However, too much of it can be dangerous, especially if you don't have high antioxidant levels in your tissues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These are herbs with a potency rarely found in the supplements industry. The Kavazon Liquizon product, for example, which is made with Kava, tingles and then slightly numbs your tongue. That's how you know it's the real deal. You can easily taste the medicinal bitters in Recovazon (one of my favorite products) or the wholesome intensity of Una de Gato.
Whether it's Chinese herbs or rainforest botanicals, I prefer to taste the medicine I'm taking. But you may not want to (most westerners, who eat far too much sugar, find these herbs to be extremely bitter). |
Mike Adams
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| People will take herbs or supplements like MSM, glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate, boswellia, cherry extracts, turmeric, and others in an attempt to treat the pain symptomatically. Although those are fine in the short-term, they don't address the long-term problem. So how do you address the long-term issue with muscle pain? You do it through nutrition and physical rehabilitation. With that, I'd like to recommend the Egoscue Method developed by Pete Egoscue.
This is a method of retraining muscles and ligaments to function in a more healthful way where they can express a full range of motion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Give yourself a couple of weeks following high-density nutritional supplementation first (and use whole food-based supplements, not the cheap chemical multivitamins sold at retail).
One of the best products you can get to assist with this is called astaxanthin. Astaxanthin will greatly boost the antioxidant count in your tissues, protect you from sunlight, and function as an internal sunscreen. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Look on the bright side. supplements made from the herb are considered prescription drugs in some European countries. In fact, St. John's wort is the leading treatment for depression in Germany where doctors prescribe it up to 20 times more often than the popular antidepressant Prozac.
A group of researchers recently reviewed over 25 short-term studies on the herb involving thousands of people with depression. In each study, St. John's wort helped relieve mild to moderate depression just as well as traditional tricyclic antidepressants and with fewer side effects.
Have a healthy skepticism. |
Mike Adams
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| In terms of the nutritional therapies for menstrual disorders, it is essentially the same as for many other disorders, which is to avoid processed foods that strip your body of vitamins and minerals and consume more of a plant-based diet, high in superfoods, and supplement with high-density nutritional supplements on a regular basis.
It's also worth noting that menstrual disorders are typically worsened by excitotoxins such as MSG, and they may often be helped by the external use of progesterone creams. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That it is the herbs and supplements that are the danger to Americans, not the drugs.
John: Yes, and with this adverse event reporting legislation, let's just say that a person calls in, they are on multiple pharmaceutical drugs while simultaneously taking one or more nutrients, and then the burden is being put on the vitamin company to prove that it is not their product. This turns DSHEA upside down if it goes through.
Mike: That is the whole point of it, of course, is to put all the blame on the vitamins. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 In this one farm, some of the horses who did not receive these supplements developed the West Nile Disease.5b'7la Is it not of interest that these preparations helped and did not hurt? We need studies to determine if these food supplements would help protect humans who lived in areas where they was grave concern.
What About the Additional Health Impact of the World Trade Center Attack? 93ac
In spite of the initial assurance that there was no immediate danger from the many contaminants polluting the NYC air after the September 11, 2001 attack, there is much that needs serious consideration. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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What is astaxanthin? I call it "Vitamin X," and it's a supercharged antioxidant derived from microalgae. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| FOS, GOS, and inulin are available as nutritional supplements in capsules, as tablets, and as a powder.
The Physiological Effects of Dietary Fiber
It is beyond the scope of this chapter to detail all the known effects of dietary fiber on humans. Instead, we will concentrate on the effects of greatest significance: stool weight and transit time, digestion, lipid metabolism, short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), and intestinal bacterial flora. We will also review a selection of diseases that are highly correlated with lack of dietary fiber, namely, colon diseases, obesity, and diabetes. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Oxidation of DNA and protein was measured using protein thiols and 8-oxodeox-yguanosine contents of lymphocyte DNA. A tendency toward lower oxidation in these groups was noted but the results were not statistically significant (Agarwal & Rao, 1998; Rao & Agarwal, 1998a).
Lung Cancer
A case-control, epidemiologic study of non-small cell lung carcinoma showed a relative risk of 0.37 (p=0.01) between a group that had plasma lycopene levels in the third tertile when compared to those in the first tertile. When the data was analyzed for African Americans, the relative risk was 0.12 (p=0.001). |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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Mike Adams
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| If I were fighting breast cancer, for example, I would take green tea supplements. Superfoods are also an excellent idea if there are no specific health issues you are battling. Give these about 20 to 30 minutes to be digested and start circulating through the blood.
«" Take the niacin in order to activate the niacin flush. I strongly advise that you start with a very small dose to experience a niacin flush. A small dose would be something like 25 to 50 mg. You don't want to overdo the flush because it can be quite annoying if you're tingling and itching like crazy for 30 minutes. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| This highlights the advantages of using juices, foods, or food-based potassium supplements to meet the human body's high potassium requirements.
Can you take too much potassium? Of course, but most people can handle any excess of potassium. The only exception is people with kidney disease. These people do not handle potassium in the normal way and are likely to experience heart disturbances and other consequences of potassium toxicity. Individuals with kidney disorders usually need to restrict their potassium intake and follow the dietary recommendations of their physicians. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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| Even as long ago as the 1940s, supplements of hydrochloric acid and pancreatic enzymes were used to treat digestive and allergic-type conditions such as asthma and eczema. This is why digestive enzymes, such as Bio 6 Plus, are part of the Digestive Support Plan
(see pages 154-6) recommended for anyone who wants to improve their digestive health and reduce the impact of food intolerances in their lives.
Do Supplemental Digestive Enzymes Survive Stomach Acid?
The answer is Yes. |
Alex Steffen
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 He wanted to create a store that sold healthy food, rather than a place that sold mostly vitamins and supplements, as so many "health-food" stores of the day did. That first store succeeded just enough—selling a sufficient volume of more expensive, but higher-quality foods—that in a few years he expanded to a second store and then a third. The business simply brought in more income than it cost to run, and generated enough profit to eventually expand into larger and larger stores. |
Paula Begoun
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| Saw palmetto supplements are available for far less money at health food and most major grocery stores.
© $$$ Lotion ($21.95 for 2 ounces) is a lightweight version of the Cream above, and the same comments apply.
© $$$ Solution Therapy Spray ($36.95 for 8 ounces) contains the same copper peptide complex as the Cream and Lotion above, but omits the saw palmetto oil. Because this product has minimal conditioning properties (it isn't even a good detangler), it is not rated as well as the Cream and Lotion products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the things that crosses my mind on all of this is that a significant portion of the American population takes supplements. They would not stand for having them stripped off the shelves and taken away. Do you think there would be just a national protest?
John: Yes, I think it is one of the reasons they are trying to strip us of our firearms.
Mike: Or even just the right to protest.
John: Yes, well, they do not want us to have freedom of speech. |
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